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Identity Thief Claimed to Be Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Here's What Took Place.
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| 12/24/2020
| Beth Baumann
Posted on 12/24/2020 6:21:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
12/24/2020 6:26:38 AM PST
by
eyeamok
To: SeekAndFind
All of this begs the question -—Why would the democrats complain of fraud?
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posted on
12/24/2020 6:26:55 AM PST
by
DrHFrog
To: SeekAndFind
Doesn’t the former employer have to verify the former employment?
To: SeekAndFind
I was stuck behind a lady at the drive up ATM in Lakewood NJ that must have had a 100 debit cards, I waited for 20 minutes and gave up and left.
To: scrabblehack
not with the PUA, you don’t even have to have a job and still get money
You could be “self employed” and get money
those two instances there is no employer, just your word
So the scammers just steal a bunch of SSN numbers and put them through as unemployed or self employed and walla pile of cash comes through. Remember the $600? That is why they did this.
Democrats did this to fund Antifa and black lives matter and other groups to defraud us of a fair election.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
12/24/2020 7:23:36 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
To: SeekAndFind
Stealing from the stealers, and blaming it on another stealer, eh?
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posted on
12/24/2020 7:40:17 AM PST
by
Old Student
(As I watch the balkanization of our nation I realize that Robert A. Heinlein was a prophet. )
To: Trump.Deplorable; scrabblehack
Doesn’t the former employer have to verify the former employment?
not with the PUA, you don’t even have to have a job and still get money
You could be “self employed” and get money
those two instances there is no employer, just your word
Normally, yes, UI is only available to those who worked a certain amount in the past year, and received a W2.
But as T.D said, the CARES Act opened UI up to everyone and their mother, who could then claim they were freelancers affected by the ChinaVirus, and get UI. I don't know how much documentation was required for such claims, but even tax forms are EASY to fake since they almost certainly didn't verify those with the IRS. The lack of oversight at many of these places means there was likely no followup or investigation into each SSN claimed, so little to none of the fraud was caught on application, when it should have been.
To: Svartalfiar
Anyone with a SSN qualified in all states
Not only did you get state unemployment you got an extra $600 a week as well.
This funded Antifa BLM and Leftist groups
Fraudsters have 100’s of bank debit cards and would empty ATM machines daily collecting $1000 a week per card
This thing was a giant fraud on hard working Americans
Why do you think sales of performance cars went up after this garbage was passed?
To: Svartalfiar
Not in Florida - or if it was, my BIL (self-employed) was declined anyway.
To: Trump.Deplorable
You should have taken a video with your camera, including her face and the car’s license plate. Then call the cops, IRS etc !!!
To: SeekAndFind; All
".... This is not the first time the Employment Development Department agency has struggled with fraud...."And it won't be the last time. The government seems so surprised that people defraud the taxpayers. When you're giving away other peoples' monies by the millions, it only seems human nature to me that you will attract crooks who will try and get some of it.
This is only Kalifornia. Multiply the problem in this department by many other departments that give money away, then multiply it by 49 other states and the federal government itself, these war of poverty programs lose the taxpayers billions, if not trillions, every year.
Paid for courtesy of the hard working people who can't take advantage of these giveaways.
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posted on
12/24/2020 10:04:42 AM PST
by
HotHunt
To: scrabblehack
When I was an active bookkeeper in Calif, I filled out more than one inquiry bout unemployment.
I also thought it was mandatory to have that info before paying claims.
Perhaps it is easier today with so much being done on a computer??? Have the form sent to an address the controls & they answer the inquiry. THERE is NO real employer.
Who did 35,000 Calif Prison inmates show as THEIR employer???
To: ridesthemiles
Who did 35,000 Calif Prison inmates show as THEIR employer??? Ranked by frequency of appearance:
State of California
Burisma
California Democratic Party
Biden PAC dot com
Kamala Harris Landscaping
To: Senormechanico
Nope, orthodox jew, nobody would do anything anyways.
And I would be called anti Semitic in return, why bother
To: Trump.Deplorable
Anyone with a SSN qualified in all states
Not only did you get state unemployment you got an extra $600 a week as well.
This funded Antifa BLM and Leftist groups
Fraudsters have 100’s of bank debit cards and would empty ATM machines daily collecting $1000 a week per card
Oh yea for sure. UI should not have been expanded that much. MAYBE to freelancers, with full documentation of 2-3 years' worth of Schedule Cs / old previous employment. But not to anyone with no discernible income within the base year period thing. And, the $600 should have been scaled based on your State unemployment: min UI benefit = $50 bonus, scaled linearly up to max UI benefit = full $600.
As for the fraud, based on SSN should have been easier to catch. Anyone still working would have had their UI office contact their job about why they need UI. Any senior citizen should have had SS contacted about it. Kids should have returned as too young to work. Dead should be known as dead. That would leave very few SSNs available for fraud, if only the State had bothered checking. Verify addresses (no PO Boxen!), and number of UI requests at each one. More than 3-4 probably means fraud. Really, anything more than two should have been an auto-flag. But the States didn't care...
To: scrabblehack
Not in Florida - or if it was, my BIL (self-employed) was declined anyway.
Oh yea, quick look at Fl, they're max of 12 weeks, at $275/week. Ouch. And they didn't extend full UI to 1099/others, only for the duration of the bonus $600 payments. And those ended in July or August I believe.
To: Svartalfiar
So he should have been approved?
I looked at the online application and yes it did exclude corporation officers.
To: scrabblehack
So he should have been approved?
I looked at the online application and yes it did exclude corporation officers.
I can't say, I'm more familiar with TX than FL. But, if it does exclude corporation officers, usually that's only for corporations of a certain size. And unless he's running a pretty big company, he would likely be set up as a sole proprietorship, LLC (limited liability). IF he's even incorporated. When I was running freelance, I didn't set up an actual company, I just ran as myself, billed in my name, and all the 1099 income simply went into a Schedule C when I filed taxes. Many people that are self-employed/freelance do that, unless you have a bunch of employees/subcontractors that you're paying out to, in which case actually incorporating makes the tax things easier.
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